tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post3787840960938467338..comments2015-07-31T10:43:56.393+01:00Comments on Cruwys news: Exploring my genome with 23andMe - ancestryDebbie Kennetthttps://plus.google.com/104478311569369783202noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-24564215955421334972011-12-06T01:21:31.006+00:002011-12-06T01:21:31.006+00:00There is a Romany DNA project. Lots of Romany men ...There is a Romany DNA project. Lots of Romany men come out as haplogroup H, but equally there are many R1b1a2s. If you have a gypsy surname and are haplogroup H then the results would be consistent. A small Indian admixture percentage could mean anything, especially with the small reference population databases, and would not necessarily indicate gypsy ancestry. The Roots of the British project is doing a special study of British Romanies but I believe they&#39;re only doing Y-DNA and mtDNA testing.Debbie Kennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-31559189143445828292011-12-06T00:48:25.488+00:002011-12-06T00:48:25.488+00:00Hi - you don&#39;t have to have a population of Ro...Hi - you don&#39;t have to have a population of Romani/Gypsy to draw conclusions, which would be a self-identified population under the best of circumstances. Since the Roma derive from populations who migrated from India - perhaps very specific tribal populations - you compare markers to the fairly wide-ranging DNA studies of Indians.<br /><br />If a person in Norway has an mtDNA haplogroup, or a YDNA haplogroup, or a series of specific SNPs that occur with great frequency in these Indian populations, you can make some pretty robust inferences.<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-55440047223942081062011-12-05T01:11:51.654+00:002011-12-05T01:11:51.654+00:00Hi Nick
I haven&#39;t bothered with all the other...Hi Nick<br /><br />I haven&#39;t bothered with all the other services that provide ethnic percentages. I already know where all my ancestors come from so they are not going to tell me very much as there are not yet enough reference populations in the databases to provide meaningful results for people of 100% British ancestry. I&#39;m waiting for the People of the British Isles Project to publish their research as they have been able to find differences between people in different regions and sometimes counties of the British Isles. I&#39;m looking forward to the day when I will be able to find out what percentage of my DNA is from Devon!<br /><br />I&#39;m not aware of any sequencing that has been done on gypsy populations. Where did this information come from?Debbie Kennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573470282571579765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-22821029436146596312011-12-05T00:22:01.835+00:002011-12-05T00:22:01.835+00:00Hi Debbie this is NickGC from RC. I know your pos...Hi Debbie this is NickGC from RC. I know your post is over a year old, but I hope you still read comments.<br /><br />I too showed 100% European on 23andMe and this jibed well with my quite detailed ancestry of colonial Americans on my paternal side, and mostly Scots and a few English ancestors on maternal. Back to 1600s to late 1700s for paternal lines, and 1750s to 1800 for most maternal.<br /><br />Have you tried sending your raw data to places like GEDMatch, or running it through the Dodecad calculators and others that are freely available. Since they apparently use different mixes of populations for comparisons the results can be quite eye opening.<br /><br />Doug McDonald, a University professor, is also a person who will run your results through his computer. What I found is that 94.5 percent of my ancestry is indeed as the genealogy show, but about 5.5% is very likely to have come from a (possibly ancient) Roma/Gypsy contribution.<br /><br />If you haven&#39;t tried these calculators, etc. I suggest you do... great fun!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-56699005703307316222010-08-03T13:10:24.010+01:002010-08-03T13:10:24.010+01:00I think the timing of my Relative Finder contacts ...I think the timing of my Relative Finder contacts was somewhat unfortunate as a lot of people will probably be away on holiday. I do hope I get more responses in the coming months. I have put a long list of surnames in my profile and I&#39;ve also added a separate list of all the locations.<br /><br />I&#39;ve looked at the Ancestry Finder matches. I have very few matches with people with public profiles. The ones I do have mostly have four grandparents in the US. One person has four grandparents in Germany, and another four grandparents in Spain so there&#39;s little chance of finding an ancestor in common. However on checking this morning I was very pleased to see a new match who has four grandparents in Australia and for the first time a surname that I recognise so I&#39;ve just sent him a message.<br /><br />Are you sure Relative Finder is opt-out rather than opt-in? I thought I had to tick a box to use the service. In the settings under Relative Finder options it does say: &quot;By checking this box, your profile will not be able to use Relative Finder to view or contact relatives. Also, you will not show up in other people&#39;s Relative Finder results. If you change your mind, you may re-join at any time by unchecking the box.&quot;Debbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238849140976286627.post-34317528736386504502010-08-03T08:45:58.903+01:002010-08-03T08:45:58.903+01:00I hope your acceptance rate will increase. A coupl...I hope your acceptance rate will increase. A couple of months ago, I finished sending out all my invitations, and I still have acceptances trickling in once in a while. My overall acceptance rate is about 25%, but it took a while to get there. Do you have any surnames in your profile or anything? I think that helps motivate people to respond.<br /><br />Have you had a chance to check out the &quot;public match&quot; section of Ancestry Finder much at all? It just came out last Thursday. In the Ancestry Finder lab, you can check the &quot;only show public matches&quot; box. This is helpful because the cut-off for Relative Finder is 7cMs, but the cut-off for Ancestry Finder is 5cMs. So you may be able to find new cousins from Ancestry Finder that are slightly below the threshold for Relative Finder. <br /><br />I found about 20 new cousins from Ancestry Finder, and they seem to be more interested in genealogy &amp; communicating with me than most others in Relative Finder. Relative Finder, by the way, is opt-out, not opt-in. This may partially explain the low response rate. I think a lot of people are only interested in the health aspects, and they check their results when they first come in, and then it seems they don&#39;t come back too often.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16858480399075402560noreply@blogger.com